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NASB | 2 Chronicles 7:14 and My people who are called by My name humble themselves and pray and seek My face and turn from their wicked ways, then I will hear from heaven, will forgive their sin and will heal their land. |
AMPLIFIED 2015 | 2 Chronicles 7:14 and My people, who are called by My Name, humble themselves, and pray and seek (crave, require as a necessity) My face and turn from their wicked ways, then I will hear [them] from heaven, and forgive their sin and heal their land. |
Subject: God's people's land? |
Bible Note: Yes, it does apply to the church. One of the most spiritually crippling contagions of the church today is an interpretive method which dismisses much of the Old Testament and relegates it to an irrelevent status. This was not the position of Christ, the position of the apostolic company or the position of non-apostolic New Testament authors. The Old Testament is not simply an interesting historical document addressing questions of origins and geneological tables. It is inspired Scripture, it is doctrinal teaching and profitable for our instruction (cf. 2Ti. 3:16). There are literally thousands of direct quotations and allusions to the Old Testament in the New. Why? To the New Testament writers the Old Testament was preparatory to the New. To them it was essential to the New. The first century church fed on the Old Testament and what few epistles (if any) that were available to them. Matthew, the first book of the New Testament, begins with (of all things) an "Old Testament" geneological table. Why? Matthew, inspired by the Holy Spirit, saw the most intimate connection between Messianic promises of the Old as necessary for their counterpart fulfillment in the New. But this goes much deeper than prophetic passages. The foundation of our atonement rests on Old Testament doctrines such as that found in Lev. 17:11. I've just touched the tip of an iceberg here. There is so much more. Let me just end with this. Do you read your Bible through in a year? If you do you will find that you are steeped in the Old Testament until mid October. In the 1995 version of the NAS 23,090 verses are in the Old Testament. 8,012 are in the New. Why did God put so much of what He had to say to us in the Old Testament? John |